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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2016.17.8.624

Analytical study to the Brake Lever in Basic Brake System for Railway Vehicle  

Park, Su-Myung (Department of Railway System, Woosong University)
Park, Jae-young (Department of Railway Electric System, Woosong University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.17, no.8, 2016 , pp. 624-629 More about this Journal
Abstract
A brake lever in a basic railway brake system is an important safety device that delivers braking force from the brake cylinder to the brake pad. The safety guidelines for designing rolling stock only qualitatively describe that the brake lever should have sufficient strength. Each train has a different type of brake lever. One brake lever that was designed with a factor of safety of 1.27 has failed, so the material was changed to increase the strength. Therefore, the stress distribution and weak points of the lever were identified by theoretical analysis. and structural analysis. Different brake lever designs were examined for KTX high-speed trains, which have a split-type structure, as well as for electric locomotives, which use an electric multiple unit (EMU) with a unity-type structure. A fracture test was also done to look at the relationship between the vertical stress and the bending stress during braking. The results were used to find a safety factor to apply to each train and suggest quantitative minimum guidelines. We also looked at changing the unity-type EMU brake lever to the split type under the same conditions and analyzed how much the design change affected the factor of safety.
Keywords
Brake lever; Brake system; Rolling stock; Structural analysis; Safety factor;
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